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Look and Reach into Another Layer of Reality

Leapmotion

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

for prototyping or architecture), I advise you to give a look to the XR-1. The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices. The target is enterprise companies.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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HTC Aims to Create a ‘Mobile OpenVR’ in China with Vive Wave VR Platform

Road to VR

It’s a pretty bold step by the company to do for China what Google is trying to do for the West with Daydream, and it seems the scale is much larger in scope given the number of partners already on board and the types of headsets capable of entry. SEE ALSO HTC Scraps Plans to Bring Daydream-based Vive Focus to Western Markets.

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Take an Infrared #Selfie, Sculpt Pottery in VR, and 15 More Art/Music Experiences

Leapmotion

All the tools you’ll need are at your fingertips, and Archy is there with his professional architectural suggestions.” We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor. ” Recommended: Google Chrome. Requires: Windows, Mac, Linux with tool tracking enabled.

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Shaping the Digital World with Our Hands, with Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian

XR for Business Podcast

We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. It would sit weird.

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Shaping the Digital World with Our Hands, with Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian

XR for Business Podcast

We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. It would sit weird.